DVD-9

More Knowledge about DVD-9

One form of DVD discs that means a single-sided dual-layer DVD disc. DVD-9 can hold approximately 7.95 gigabytes of data, even though marketers like to use the 8.5GB value instead, but this is misleading and is calculated by using so-called "Japanese gigabytes" which means that gigabyte is calculated as 1,000 megabytes, but in real computer terminology, gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes.

Dual/Double Layer(8.5GB) write speeds:

1x CLV = about 105 minutes
2.4x CLV = about 44 minutes
4x CLV = about 27 minutes

Other regular DVD size acronyms are: DVD-5, DVD-10, DVD-14, and DVD-18.

How to Rip A DVD-9 Disc?

Believing it or not, best movie resources are still from your DVD collections. Besides watching movies on TV with DVD player, sometimes you may also want to enjoy the films with iPod, iPad, PSP, or PC players; sometimes you may want to back up a special disc; sometimes you want to upload DVD disc content to YouTube but just find only FLV files are accepted...At this moment, you do need to rip DVD to video in common formats. On the other hand, DVD discs takes some space while converting DVD to videos to store the movies on PC will save your space. Needless to say, backing up DVD disc and making DVD copy are necessary to ensure never losing those important data.

The following guide will tell you exactly how to rip a DVD-9 disc and convert DVD movie to video in desired format, like ripping DVD to AVI/MP4/WMV, step by step.

First, it is necessary to install the software: DVD Converter;
Secondly, you should have a DVD-9 disc in your driver or DVD folder in your PC;
Last, make sure your PC has enough free space in a hard disk for saving temporary files.

Step 1: Add DVD Movie to DVD Converter

Launch DVD Converter. Click button “Open DVD” to open a DVD disc in your driver or a DVD folder (containing VOB files) in your PC.

Step 2: Specify DVD to Video/Audio Conversion

After DVD titles are all listed in the program, you may go to General Settings or Advanced Settings panel to specify your conversion. Click the drop down arrow under "Target profile" and select a profile from the list. It lists kinds of DVD to video/audio conversion pre-sets, which are specified different dimension, bit rate, codec, file size and so on.

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Step 3: Rip DVD

Click button "Rip DVD" on the top of the tool bar to start DVD to video/audio conversion.

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